dance-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc1839,0620.20
- Description
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Dance ornament made of emu feathers held together near the ends with a band of sinew(?).
- Production date
- 1839 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 31 centimetres
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Width: 13 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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'Emu feather tassel ornament
The best and longest are selected and tied up into bundles, and worn by the natives at their Corobores or Native Dances[,] also when they pay or receive visits [XX?] to each other on the arms[,] loins[,] fastened in the waist band and on the head.' (From a description of the Talbot collection in the 'Acquisitions Ethnographical 1835-1839', AOA Archive).
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A listing of this collection, titled 'Implements used by the Natives in the neighbourhood of the Swan River, collected by S Neil Talbot Esq. in 1838 and presented by him to the British Museum' was entered in the 'Acquisitions Ethnographical 1835- 1839' (Dept of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Archives).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015-2016 27 Nov-28 Mar, Canberra, National Museum of Australia, Encounters
- Acquisition date
- 1839
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by Talbot in 1838 'in the neighbourhood of the Swan River'.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1839,0620.20
